“ Mere colour, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.” - Oscar Wilde Of all the animals man has one of the most developed faculties of colour vision. An average healthy human can distinguish between some six and 10 million colours and tones. This ‘colour sense’ is crucial to us in our daily lives; far more than we may realize. Colour tells us what to eat. It also tells us what not to get eaten by. Colour communicates very quickly.
A newborn child will look more readily at vividly coloured toys. What a dog does with his sense of smell we make up for with our acute sense of colour. We need to. Every child learns to respect the yellow and black colours of the wasp. One sting is all it takes. Colour does mean life and death. How quickly colour communicates is easy to see. Literally! An airline pilot can make out immediately if another aircraft is approaching....
